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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phelps: [QB] A shuttlebay-launched torpedo doesn't help at all! Although it did seem to me that the aft torpedo from "Paradise Lost" was launched from about the same area (just note how the glow grows big enough to fully envelop the starboard quantum launcher, so this photon launcher must be closer to the front of the ship than to the back). Maybe that's where a foward photon launcher was installed or should've been installed according to the stolen Defiant specs -- after all, the DS9TM says the shuttlebay area was originally reserved for future weapons systems. It could be a plug-and-play slot, just like the shoulder modules that housed quantum launchers most of the time. My theory is that the Defiant had been originally outfitted with two forward launchers in the nose and two aft launchers on either side of Deck 4, as shown on the original MSD. They would've fired both photon and quantum torpedoes. However, they just couldn't get them to work as well as the newly developed weapons that could be fitted into the plug-and-play slots, so for the time being, they filled the plug-and-play slots in the shoulders with quantum torpedo launchers, and the one in the shuttlebay-area with a forward and an aft photon torpedo launcher. The MSD weapons would've hence stayed offline most of the time. Once the series ended (note that the DS9TM blueprints and MSD have stardates in the 53xxx range), somebody finally figured out how to get the deflector launchers and the Deck 4 aft launchers working right -- they moved the forward tubes together (as seen in the deck plans) and fixed some other things. That opened up the forward shoulder slots for targeting sensors. The shuttlebay-area weapons had been replaced with a shuttlebay long before that, since that was deemed more necessary than a photon torpedo launcher, rarely used in the series. I also forgot to mention that for a period of time in 2374, during which no torpedoes were fired onscreen, O'Brien would have another try at liberating the shoulder-slots by putting the quantum launchers on the nacelles (as mentioned in the text of the DS9TM). However, that didn't work either, so back they go into the shoulder modules, just in time for us to see them in "Tears of the Prophets". In the meantime, newer starships of the Defiant class would be outfitted with only a single forward and a single aft torpedo launcher (as seen in the ship section at the end of the DS9TM), located in the shuttlebay slot. Starfleet saw that installing deflector and Deck 4 aft launchers just didn't make any sense until their problems were fixed. Quantum torpedoes in the shoulder slots would be classified as too expensive until warranted by a mission -- after all, how many ships have we seen using them? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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